Improving Public Management - Rilegato

Metcalfe, Les; Richards, Sue

 
9780803981034: Improving Public Management
Rilegato
ISBN 10: 0803981031 ISBN 13: 9780803981034
Casa editrice: Sage Pubns, 1987

Sinossi

Since taking office in 1979, Mrs Thatcher's Conservative government has adopted an Efficiency Strategy, to reduce public spending and reform management in government.

Metcalfe and Richards describe and assess the Efficiency Strategy as an exercise in improving public management. They explain how the strategy has gone about improving administrative performance by increasing cost-consciousness in the use of resources and creating flexibility for managing change. They analyse major themes such as decentralization, information systems and budgets as management tools, organization design and the management of interdepartmental relations.

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Recensione

`The most authoritative (study) to date' - New Statesman, 11.9.87

`This study is a useful and important contribution to the analysis of Thatcherism and the development of recent administrative methods' - International Review of Social Sciences,

`provide(s) a useful introduction to, and critique of, developments in civil service management between 1979 and 1985.' - Parliamentary Affairs,

`The depth of the authors' analysis is enhanced by a tight discussion of conceptual problems and an excellent knowledge of the inner workings of departments thanks to their previous involvement in teaching at the Civil Service College. - West European Politics

Contenuti

Preface
Thatcherism and Raynerism
Management and Efficiency in Government
Management Information and the Minister as Manager
Centralize In Order To Decentralize
Spend to Save
Statisticians as Professionals in Government
The Efficiency of the Efficiency Strategy
Market Approaches to Public Management
The Financial Management Initiative
The Politics of Efficiency and Management of Change

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Editore
Sage Pubns
Data di pubblicazione
1987
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0803981031
ISBN 13 
9780803981034
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
260
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

Altre edizioni note dello stesso titolo

9780803984004: Improving Public Management

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0803984006 ISBN 13:  9780803984004
Casa editrice: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1990
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